Sorry to read these sad posts and my thoughts are with you all.

That illness is a ******* indeed.

A mate of mine's dad, who used to come out on the pop with us, asked me to visit him in the hospice. I got there the minute he died and the smell and look of him lying there riddled with it a shadow of the man I once new. He did his bit in the Korean war. This war is also known as "The Forgotten War"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1285708.stm